Q1. "Cart off" means:
- discard
- disregard
- dejected
- None of these.
✅ Correct Answer:
A [ discard ]
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📖 Why?"cart off" means to take someone or something away, often forcefully or abruptly.
Q2. To get cold feet
- to run for life
- to get cold
- to be afraid
- to become discourteous
✅ Correct Answer:
C [ to be afraid ]
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📖 Why?"To get cold feet" means to suddenly become too nervous or frightened to do what you had planned to do.
Q3. The man cannot be trusted in the post for he has an itching palm.
- habit of taking bribe
- has an infectious disease
- habit of flattery
- a quarreling habit
✅ Correct Answer:
A [ habit of taking bribe ]
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📖 Why?Itching palm: A desire for money, greed, wanting a bribe.
Q4. I cannot deal with a queer fish like him.
- having too much critical habit
- dishonest person
- very mean person
- eccentric and peculiar person
✅ Correct Answer:
D [ eccentric and peculiar person ]
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📖 Why?a queer fish: a person whose behaviour is strange or unusual.
Q5. He is in deep water and needs your help.
- great difficulties
- under the water
- a sea
- pain
✅ Correct Answer:
A [ great difficulties ]
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📖 Why?"deep water" meaning: in a difficult or awkward situation.
Q6. Choose the most appropriate meaning of the idiom "To cry wolf".
- To Cry copiously
- To raise false alarm
- To be frightened
- To scare people
✅ Correct Answer:
B [ To raise false alarm ]
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📖 Why?To cry wolf: to keep asking for help when you do not need it, with the result that people think you do not need help when you really need it.
Q7. If someone uses the idiom "a black sheep", he/she is talking about:
- a sheep that in black
- an unlucky person
- an ugly person
- None of the above
✅ Correct Answer:
D [ None of the above ]
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📖 Why?"a black sheep": a person who has done something bad that brings embarrassment or shame to his or her family.
Q8. When one is "airing dirty linen in public", the person is:
- discussing private affairs in public
- hanging out clothes in the open to dry
- standing up and fighting
- complaining
✅ Correct Answer:
A [ discussing private affairs in public ]
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📖 Why?"airing dirty linen in public": discussing or arguing about unpleasant or private things in front of other people.
Q9. If you talking about a "tit for tat" situation, you are:
- making someone angry
- doing harm as done to you
- rewarding people for the good done
- taking advantage of someone
✅ Correct Answer:
B [ doing harm as done to you ]
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📖 Why?"tit for tat": is an equivalent given in return, retaliation in kind.
Q10. He is ill at ease in his new position.
- not comfortable
- feeling sad
- angry
- callous
✅ Correct Answer:
A [ not comfortable ]
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📖 Why?ill at ease: awkward, uneasy, uncomfortable
